Hyperstrike

6 Slotted hasten. Absolute maximum recharge.

Not necessary, but if you're dedicating an alt build specifically for this and no other reason...

As to slotting run on SB. Because someone is probably going to be SB'ing the tank as well.

Yes, but do we want to take the challenge to the ultimate point (getting a tank, more or less how they operate in combat and allowing them to jump).

Since we, apparently, don't need multiple zones worth of people, why not try it anyhow?

Not necessarily.

Depends on how they do it.

If they specify that ultra hair is simply a offshoot of the current hairstyles, no extra bandwidth is consumed as the client side settings are what determine if you get movable hair or not. Like Bloom effects, or PhysX.

If the client has Ultra Hair turned on, they get Ultra Hair.
If the client has Ultra Hair turned off, they get normal hair.


If they decide to do Ultra Hair as separate hairstyles, it's simply a different hair code being passed.

Also, try either doing it under "Run as Administrator" or turn off UAC for a short while.

nice!

You never saw Famke Janssen in Goldeneye did you?

Get off my lawn...

Why? We're still less than a month out from the last DXP weekend. Usually, we have a massive hoovering affect on the market for several weeks afterward as desirable recipes and the appropriate salvage are pulled off the market by people with more money than brains.

Like all the newly minted DP L50's.

MUWAHAHAHAHA!

My wicked (but not necessarily evil) plan is succeeding!

And sorry I didn't make it last night. RL meeting of company owners last night. And real dollars sorta have to trump Inf.

No. No no no no no.

It completely and utterly misses the point of the whole freaking game.

The game is, and always has been, about the journey to 50. Once you get there, yeah, there's other things to do. But it's about the journey, not the destination.

/unsigned
/j-FREAKIN-ranger




Whaddya think? Too strong?

We are the Abe Vigoda of MMOs?

Which is not the same thing as dying.

If you want to be technical about it. It's dying in the same way you or I are dying. A "Yeah. Eventually. Not sure when. Hopefully not soon." kind of dying.

And yours isn't?

I'm suing for neck strain brought on by having to look up at you on that overly tall equine.

How about just "not as populous as you remember"? What with rose colored glasses and all.

Dude, EVERQUEST (not EQ2) is nearly twice this game's age and still going.

As with politics. EVERYONE has an axe to grind. EVERYONE.

The neat trick is to figure out what their axe is, and present your case in such a way as to appear as a grindstone.

Thus far, the suggestions in this thread have merely attempted to simulate a rust monster.

This is a truism though. Fine for generalities, but when you attempt to apply it with specificity, the cracks start to show.

Neither of us have any idea of what NCSoft/Paragon considers "acceptable" numbers.

Evil Hyperstrike vs UltraBatz: PWNED!

Because most of them are there for "Ooh! Shiny!"

Closed beta is about directed testing.

They don't just want "feedback" of a couple of pre-chosen choices. They're looking for "This is broken. This is what it's doing. Here's how it was tested. Here's exactly what's wrong. Here's a suggestion on how to fix it."

You can't get that level of detail from a forum poll.

Again, quality over quantity.

They're looking for structured feedback from people who've proven they know how to supply it.

Later, they can let more people in for the hunting of more obvious bugs.

There's also the fact that in a lot of cases, early betas are NOT pretty.
CO was like that (unfortunately it didn't get much better). Giving everybody and their brother access to early beta can scare some people because they forget that this is rough code. NOT the shipping game. It can then generate lots of negative publicity for them. Then, when the polished version of the product comes out, people run away from it because of their initial impressions of the beta.

Yes, but unlike you, I actually used complete sentences and broke it down point by point rather than stretching a paragraph or two over several dozen lines for no reason whatsoever.

And, since you've stooped to fallacious argument styles I figured a bit of stealth-editing wouldn't be beneath you. So it's better if I break down your post without paraphrasing you. This way you can't tell later that "that's not what I said".


And, I don't give a damn that other people have said essentially the same thing I've said before. *I* am saying it now. Moreover, the fact that we're in agreement should tell you something.

And I didn't ever call you a liar.

I've said some of the things you say are wrong. Or misleading. I've also said that some of the things you're talking about are naive or irrelevant.

There IS a difference.

And yes, this is OPINION. Facts have been brought in when warranted. But you've blithely ignored them for the most part with some sort of greener grass mentality.

I'm well aware of the reasons WoW is #1. A great many of them are the same reasons I don't play WoW (or any of the WoW wannabes) in the first place.

This does not mean that everyone has to be like WoW to be successful.

This entire game is proof positive of this! 6 years ago, people thought Cryptic was nuts for not following the WoW model. Yet here we are, 6 years on. Still going. Still growing.

No, it's called "arms race". Or "monty haul". It also BADLY fragments your population. And you were griping before about lack of endgame here?

What would more levels get us in this game? Never-ending power creep.

Great. We could be Superman and go play soccer with planets.

I'm not saying I wouldn't like MORE options for post-50 character development. But more levels isn't necessary in this game. At level 50, you pretty much are able to take on cosmic-level and interdimensional horrors, then go for a beer afterwards.

And, simply because people go "I want" doesn't mean it's a good idea, feasible, or even implementable. And, as with anything. A lot of different people want a lot of different things. On top of this, Paragon has to deal with the fact that the base engine for CoH isn't theirs. It's licensed from Cryptic. This, in and of itself, places constraints on them.

Yes. You have. Wanton cruelty to animals has always bothered me. Now leave the poor horse alone already. It's dead.

Then go play WoW.

How do you know? Oh that's right. One more uninformed statement.

Yet you keep bringing up "facts", which are anything but, and examples, which are poorly formed, to support your opinion. THAT is what people are shooting holes in. Not your opinion. That's just collateral damage.

The game isn't dying. All your proclamations to the contrary won't make it so. And you've pretty much proved that you don't know what you're talking about.

Since you don't have subscriber numbers for this game, this is another instance of you talking from your lower orifice. Requisite fecal odor included.

Which makes no sense whatsoever.

There's already a standard response to this. I'm not even going to waste time on it.

Oh wow. I'm, like, so INSULTED that you went and dissed *my* game! Oh noez!

Please go elsewhere if you want to get into a flamefest. You don't have the requisite investment in asbestos.

Now where were we?

Oh yes. Come back when you have an actual point to make son.